Historic All Under Rated Team
C) Joe Torre who should be in the hall for his playing/ catching, not his managing.
1B) Keith Hernandez who is still the best defensive 1st baseman ever.
2B) Max Bishop. "Camera eye" demonstrated that people knew the value of OBP long before Micheal Lewis wrote about it
3B) Frank Baker. He is the only 3B to crack 60 WAR and play before 1952.
SS) Bill Dahlen. It is long overdue but I think he makes the hall in the next decade.
LF) Tim Raines. Ken Williams. If he had played for Cardinals instead of the Browns, I think he'd have made the HoF
CF) Tris Speaker. He is one of the 2 or 3 best CF ever!
RF) Mel Ott. One of the greatest player ever rarely gets his due.
SP) Bob Caruthers. He was Babe Ruth before Babe Ruth was even born!

This is what I mean by underrated. Everyone rates Hernandez as "the best defensive first baseman of all time" but he was not as good as Mattingly, and as hitters there was no contest.

That makes it hard to see Hernandez as under-rated, since everyone rates him very highly, and if anything too highly. Plus he was a narc. That undermines team morale and unity and loses points in my book. Plus he was up with one out in the 9th in game 6 of the 1986 World Series and did not get the hit. Gary Carter then did get a hit under more pressure. So did Kevin Mitchell and Ray Knight and then Mookie Wilson had an amazing at bat.

I strongly agree with you on Frank Baker, the only player ever to be nicknamed "homer" (could we get a Greek mythology theme league going I wonder? Or a great writers' names theme?), and on Tim Raines. But I would not want Keith Hernandez on my team and Don Mattingly has only been a positive force on any team he has been around.

I like the Trammell and Whitaker mentions for the underrated lists. There are very few WS winning teams with zero players in the Hall of Fame; the 1984 Tigers are one of them.

Whitaker in particular is given short shrift. He lasted exactly one season on the HoF ballot before being dropped for lack of votes. I'm not saying he's a HoF'er, but that's pretty harsh for a player Bill James rated the 13th greatest 2B of all-time in The Baseball Abstract.